[Joseph F. Smith to John Hafen]
We have carefully read your [letter] complaining of unfair criticism of your illustrations of the hymn, 'Oh My Father,' and we fully appreciate all you say, on the subject of art in a general way. ... some of our brethren occupying the position of mission presidents were interesting themselves in publishing with a view to freely circulating this well known hymn in an illustrated form ... If the scheme had been carried out ... the scale of the work would naturally carry with it the idea, that this was being done on Church authority, and the agents would naturally emphasize this idea in their endeavors to make sales ... If you yourself desire to publish the work on your own responsibility; or if anybody else other than an officer of the Church desire to employ you to make the illustrations, or to accept those already made by you ... we offer no objection whatever. All that we object to is to have the Church connected with it either directly or indirectly.
[Joseph F. Smith, Letter to John Hafen, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
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